Cardinal to represent New Durham on GWRSD board; all articles pass

NEW DURHAM — Julianne Cardinal defeated Ellen Phillips to win the seat as the town representative for a two-year term on the Governor Wentworth Region School District School Board.

Cardinal garnered 97 votes in New Durham and for all six communities in the district, a total of 935 votes. Phillips, a retired teacher at the New Durham Elementary School, carried the town with 147 votes and had a total of 823 from voters in all the towns.

In the only other contested race, Ernest Brown collected 1,445 votes versus Andren Shagoury's 283 for the three-year term of School Board member at large.

In addition to New Durham, other communities in the district include Brookfield, Effingham, Ossipee, Tuftonboro and Wolfeboro.

In uncontested races the following were elected

■ Diane Drelick, 691 votes for the three-year term for Effingham.

■ Connor Maciver, 680 votes for the three-year term for Ossipee.

■ Randy Walker, 2,166 votes for the one-year term as school district moderator.

Voters also passed all six of the articles on the ballot relating to the overall operating budget, employee contracts and compensation as well a repairs and improvements.